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4:15 PM ET, October 3, 2011

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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
‘Niggerhead’  —  Ok, then: … In all seriousness, I think this says very little about Rick Perry, and a lot more about the country he seeks to govern.  A few choice quotes: … And from the Times: … Surely there are people, in both stories, who find the name offensive.
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Rick Perry / Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered  —  The rock was about five feet across and three feet tall, smooth and relatively flat, the word in block letters stretching across its surface, said the former worker from the Hendrick ranch …
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007  —  New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.
NY Daily News:
TWU blasts city for putting handcuffed Occupy Wall Street protesters on buses  —  The Transport Workers Union will go to court Monday to try to stop the city from forcing bus drivers to transport Wall Street protesters arrested by the NYPD, the Daily News has learned.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Cost Of A Demobilized Left
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Eschaton
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Paul supports anti-Wall Street protests
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Calls Himself ‘Underdog’ in 2012 Race for White House  —  George Stephanopoulos of ABC News interviews President Barack Obama live on ABCNews.com and Yahoo! today at 2:35 EST. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)  —  Calling himself an “underdog,” President Obama today …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Rep. Cantor rejects Obama, says president's jobs package is dead
Discussion: CNN
Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:   Eric Cantor's America
Bob Inglis / Bloomberg:
Conservative Means Standing With Science on Climate: Bob Inglis  —  Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) — Normally, the country can count on conservatives to deal in facts.  We base policies on science, not sentiment, we insist on people being accountable for their actions, and we maintain that markets, not mandates, are the path to prosperity.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
For Christie, a ‘modern front-porch campaign’?
Washington Examiner:
York: The crazy math of a Chris Christie candidacy
Kevinliptak / CNN:
South Carolina to hold primary on January 21  —  Washington (CNN) - South Carolina's Republican presidential primary will be held on Jan. 21 of next year, two GOP sources tell CNN.  —  South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly will formally announce the date later this morning.
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
GOP primary chaos continues as South Carolina reschedules
Discussion: CNN
Mort Zuckerman / Financial Times:
Why business despairs of Obama  —  Take a deep breath.  The industrialised world, America included, seems stuck in one of those horror movies, where the monster, thought to be slain, morphs into something even more scary.  The fear is that a double-dip, or worse, is now upon us.
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Ben White / The Politico:
(Not so) happy TARP anniversary …
Discussion: DealBook
Fran Tarkenton / Wall Street Journal:
What if the NFL Played by Teachers' Rules?  —  Imagine a league where players who make it through three seasons could never be cut from the roster.  —  Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality.  Each player's salary is based on how long he's been in the league.
Gary Langer / Politics:
Majority Expects Obama to Lose Re-Election  —  A majority of Americans expect Barack Obama to be a one-term president, an assessment on which, in past elections, the public more often has been right than wrong.  —  Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama …
Kenneth W. Starr / New York Times:
Open Up High Court to Cameras  —  TODAY, the nation welcomes back nine justices who toil quietly and, for the most part, outside public view.  But there is no reason the public should be denied access to their consideration of and arguments about urgent questions — from global warming to health care — that affect us all.
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Joshua Matz / SCOTUSblog:
Monday round-up  —  Today, the Court officially begins …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Althouse
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
It's between Christie and his wife  —  I've been avoiding doing a tick-tock of “will-he-or-won't-he” on Chris Christie's deliberations this weekend, and his camp has stayed off the grid.  Christie himself has also stayed mum, and he has no media availability tomorrow.
Washington Examiner:
Thank Wal-Mart for your new bank card fee  —  When Bank of America announced last week that it would charge $5 a month to customers who make purchases with their debit card, customers railed against the bank.  —  Many conservatives and libertarians said the anger should be aimed at Congress …
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Warren, Brown in dead heat: UMass Lowell/Herald poll  —  Joe K, Deval would do better  —  Democrat Elizabeth Warren's meteoric ascent in Massachusetts politics has landed her in a virtual dead heat with Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, while two Democrats who passed on the race …
Democracy Now:
PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY OCT. 3, 1PM: Amy Goodman Announces Major Settlement in Federal Lawsuit Over Arrests at 2008 GOP Convention in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan  —  MEDIA ADVISORY  —  Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman Announces Major Settlement in Federal Lawsuit
New York Times:
A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant Struggles  —  WASHINGTON — In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal plant run by a politically connected clean energy start-up that has relied heavily on an Obama administration loan guarantee and is now facing financial turmoil.
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Reagan Called For An End To ‘Crazy’ Tax Loopholes That Let Millionaires Pay Less Than Bus Drivers  —  When President Obama released his plan for “the Buffett rule,” which involves closing tax loopholes and ensuring that millionaires pay their fair share in taxes, he explained that …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Holding China to Account  —  The dire state of the world economy reflects destructive actions on the part of many players.  Still, the fact that so many have behaved badly shouldn't stop us from holding individual bad actors to account.  —  And that's what Senate leaders will be doing this week …
 
 
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Pelosi says GOP is using class warfare term as a ‘defense’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Andrew Restuccia / Ballot Box:
Gingrich: ‘I would have fired Secretary Chu’ over Solyndra loan guarantee
Discussion: The Politico and The Hill
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
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Amanda Knox / The Daily Beast:
Inside Obama's Populist Makeover
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Panetta's (Mostly) Unfair Criticism
Discussion: Associated Press
Vanity Fair:
The November 2011 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
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New York Post:
FDNY welcomes 1st transgender firefighter in city history
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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
McCain Dismisses Cheney's Demand That Obama Apologize For Rebuking Bush Administration's Use Of Torture
New York Times:
Foreclosures Are Killing Us
New York Post:
Furiously unraveling  —  The joke goes that anything named …
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Cain wins straw poll at GOP women's forum
Bloomberg:
Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales